In the quest to understand where unsatisfactoriness comes from, we are often inclined to search for causes or people to blame. Continue reading
Author: onetusk
Distinguishing leadership and authority
The scarcity of leadership from people in authority, makes it all the more critical to the adaptive successes of a polity that leadership be exercised by people without authority. Continue reading
Listening is one of the basic secrets
“Life repeats itself mindlessly – unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel. Thats why Buddhists call it the wheel of life and death, the wheel of time. Continue reading
Seven Things You Need to Know About Clever People
Leaders should be aware of the characteristics most clever people share, which collectively make them a difficult crew to manage. Continue reading
In The Next Room – Canon Henry Scott Holland
Death is nothing at all:
I have only slipped away into the next room. Continue reading
There was no one left to speak up for me
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
– Martin Niemöller, German theologian
A friend who cares
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds Continue reading
Great enemy of truth is very often not the lie but the myth….
As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on from the reassuring repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. Continue reading
“The One Thing You Must Do”
“There is one thing in this world that you must never forget to do. If you forget everything else and not this, there’s nothing to worry about; but if you remember everything else and forget this, then you will have done nothing in your life. Continue reading
The Final Analysis – Mother Theresa
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
…Forgive them anyway! Continue reading
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